| According to Manufacturing journalist, TR Cutler, in | | | | companies produce finished goods faster, better, and |
| the current issue of Logistics Management, “With | | | | more cost-effectively. Supplier Compliance is a food |
| the advent of a new generation of corporate | | | | safety firewall that allows companies to detect and |
| instrumentation that has become a necessity in | | | | eliminate problems in the supply chain before they are |
| every industry, one of the systems gaining | | | | incorporated into finished goods and shipped to |
| prominence are the tracking and tracing systems, | | | | customers. By reducing ingredient variability, the |
| which is proving its worth especially in the logistics | | | | finished product becomes less costly to manufacture, |
| sector. These systems generate real-time alerts | | | | performs better, and ultimately increases customer |
| when supply chain activities are disrupted. And, these | | | | satisfaction. Supplier Impact enables companies to |
| systems enable operators to keep track of each | | | | easily measure how each supplier affects finished |
| product coming to the warehouse, and manage the | | | | goods quality and profitability, and connects product |
| complex data systems. Besides, managers can also | | | | outcomes and customer feedback to specific |
| generate real-time views of the plant operation to | | | | upstream ingredient suppliers. Suppliers are |
| make better decisions, thereby enhancing the | | | | continuously scored based on performance of key |
| efficiency of operations throughout the supply | | | | attributes for each shipment, and rank ordered |
| chain.” The full feature can be read at | | | | against their peers. With the TraceGains’ |
| Technology-TraceabilitySystem.pdf. | | | | CaseTrace and LabelTrace solutions, companies can |
| | | | | achieve true ingredient-level traceability. Effective |
| | | | | product recalls are accelerated and performed at the |
| However, in the case of manufacturing companies, | | | | unit level, so recall costs, long-term brand damage, |
| many of them operate everyday with only partial | | | | and brand rehabilitation costs are minimized. |
| instrumentation to guide them, and they think | | | | LabelTrace can be expanded to include brand |
| everything is fine, when in fact it is not. According to | | | | authentication and consumer-level loyalty marketing. |
| William | | | | All TraceGains solutions present findings in |
| R Pape, executive vice-president, TraceGains, | | | | easy-to-understand dashboard graphics with full |
| “The instrumentation required to operate a | | | | drilldown capabilities, which are available for onsite |
| company could be better, significantly so, and the | | | | deployment or delivered as SaaS |
| cost of adding enhanced instrumentation can also be | | | | (software-as-a-service). Headquartered in Longmont, |
| managed. As an added bonus, the company can | | | | Colorado, USA, TraceGains has direct and partner |
| improve its traceability capability, a need that many | | | | offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin |
| manufacturers are finding increasingly urgent.” | | | | America, and Asia. |
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| The mission at TraceGains ( is to make the food | | | | |
| supply chain safer and more profitable by helping | | | | TraceGains Inc. |